Before Adam

Before Adam is a novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a boy who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine.

• COVER: A Window On the War in Afghanistan - As Washington debates what to do about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, photographer Adam Ferguson captures and describes the daily lives of the men fighting it
• NATION: An Enemy Within - Out on the prairie, the feds arrest and charge an Afghan with a bomb recipe on his laptop. Was there a wider terrorist plot?
• SCIENCE: A Long-Lost Relative - The oldest hominid skeleton ever discovered offers unexpected clues to what our even more ancient ancestors might have looked like

Advances in fossil studies relating to the origin of Homo sapiens have strengthened the hypothesis that our direct ancestors originated on the African continent. Most researchers also agree that the time when prehumans diverged from the last common ancestor was in the early part of the Late Miocene epoch. Focus must now shift from determining the times and places of hominid origins to clarifying hominid evolutionary problems, such as the selective factors and acquisition processes of hominid bipedalism.